my awesome t-shirts

I own a lot of T-shirts. So many T-shirts, in fact, that my wife and I frequently have a conversation that goes like this:

Her: So. I see you got another T-shirt.
Me: Yeah. Isn't it awesome?!
Her: Where's it going to go?
Me: In my T-shirt drawer with all my other awesome T-shirts.
Her: By "T-shirt drawer" do you mean "pile next to the bed, pile in your office, pile on top of the dresser, box in garage, other box in garage, and pile that gets transferred from bed to floor and back again every twenty-four hours?"
Me: But it's awesome!
Her: [annoyed grunt]

One of my most awesome T-shirts (which lives in the drawer, for the record) is from the xkcd store: Science, it works, Bitches.  I love it so much, I wore it to PAX, where I saw several other people wearing it. We may have shouted "Excelsior!" At each other, or maybe I imagined that. What I know for a fact is that dozens of people saw it and proclaimed, "xkcd rocks!" Because it does.

In the background of this picture is my friend Paul, and his awesome daughter, Ivy.

(Click picture to embiggen at Flickr.)

Comments

[Dingo]

Thats awesome, I have way too many t-shirts too. Just recently I bought one with Marvel superheroes on it, a Spiderman t-shirt, and a Firefly t-shirt. My favorite is totally the Firefly one.

[Dingo]

Oh not to mention one of my friends has a t-shirt he got from ThinkGeek that says "2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2". The geekiest of my friends, myself included, have had debates lasting an hour at least about whether or not it's true.

[SandieK]

*blinks* Too many T Shirts? Thats not possible.

[Elizabeth]

Hell Dingo, it doesn't even take *extremely* large values of 2 really - just 2.3 and 2.2 (both of which round down to 2) add up to 4.5, which would round up to 5.

On the t-shirts - my boyfriend takes up more space in the closet than I do, because he has so many flippin' t-shirts. We don't have a dresser, so it all hangs up. Lucky for our budget, he gets a huge portion of them free, from various vendors.

I just wish one of them would give him a damn dresser to store them in, so I could buy some clothes for myself.

[MuppetCoat]

I have so many shirts I love and even more I want... Best one I've seen that I don't have has to be "These are not the breasts you're looking for."

(Additionally, I once saw a tech at a concert who had a shirt which read: "My name is Hey You" and for this, I loved him)

[Mike Cohen]

Do you have xkcd's "sudo make me a sandwich" t-shirt? That's still my favorite.

[nkicroft]

xkcd most definitely rocks. i'm still tempted to drive a bazillion hours up to boston just so i can fly kites with cameras.

[lizreay]

Heheh... I see your dresser is the same as my husband's. (He has one. It's lovely. His grandfather made it. It holds his socks and underwear and 4 empty drawers, and a ton of crap on the top of it.)

My awesome engineer friend Deb has the "Science, It Works, Bitches!" t-shirt. Love it.

[Tim]

Wil, I am a scientist and I own that shirt. When I wear it whilst doing sciency things, people give me high fives in the hall. It's no 'Excelsior' but it'll do. Thank you for introducing the world (who didn't already know about it) to the most awesome T-shirt known to man.

[Matthew J. Sanderson]

I'm glad I'm not alone in the awesome t-shirt department. I have way too many that I never even wear. And yet, I still need to get some xkcd and Dinosaur Comics shirts. Sigh.

[rachel h]

Sigh. Everybody is going to hate me for saying this, except maybe Anne, because it might slow you down just a tad.

For every conventional cotton, made in wherever, t-shirt, 1/3 of a pound of pesticides have been dumped into the water system. In fact, 25% of the worlds pesticide use goes just to growing cotton. Sadly, not so awesome. And believe me, I luv my t-shirts too, but once I found that little factoid out, I only by organic cotton ones - which I gotta admit, cuts way down on the buying.

Sorry to be the party pooper. Unfortunately for me, as a green designer, I know this stuff. Life would probably be easier if I didn't.

[bjimba]

Mike Cohen: *I've* got "sudo make me a sandwich", and the blank stares from 99% of the folks I encounter are worth bearing when someone from the 1% gets it.

Same goes for the Threadless tee of Super Mario Rene Magritte.

Everyone gets the goapeshirts.com "Evolver", but it's still one of the best.

[noromdiam]

You just gave me an excellent gift idea for my coworker. We are scientists, we do science all the live long day.

[alikitty619]

Wil, please understand this is for you own good. You're wife is a tolerant woman, but you can only push someone so far before they call in a professional. That said....

The TA (T-shirts Anonymous) intervention team has been called. It's the first step to a healthier way of life. You and your family deserve to be happy w/out all the pain and suffering caused by your obsession w/ awesome T-shirts. Thank you for getting the help you so desperately need.

[solace]

Of all my geeky shirts, one of my favs was one from an oligo vendor - It said "Go ahead, make my DNA!"

If this actually posts...it will be amazing. So there typepad!

[John Bell]

I <3 xkcd and ALL their shirts.

I have Science, Sudo Make Me a Sandwich (my favorite since only 1 out of 10 passersby gets it), My Normal Approach, and Just Shy.

[LaurenC]

Love the shirt....it rocks. When it comes to threadless I must admit I have been waiting for a $10 license to shop. But if I click that link and earn you shiny gold rocks to buy more shirts with, will your wife not hunt me down for adding to your mountains of cool shirts.

Also....I finally found out what PAX stood for. Until now I kept thinking back to 'Serenity' and the disease that created the Reevers.

I think I watch too much TV.

[Clank]

Speaking of awesome T-shirts, I was the guy at PAX with the zombie ice cream cone "me want brains!" shirt.

I just wanted to reiterate how much I (and everyone else in attendence) genuinely enjoyed your keynote.

You done good.

[Douglas Kastle]

My favourite T-shirt is 10,000 kilometers away in my parents house. It was/is a crimson guard t-shirt, a silver cobra logo on a red t-shirt (G.I. Joe). I loved it but virtually no-one I knew got it. My if I can figure out how this internets work I can get another one.

[MikeN]

I think I have 4 business shirts and about 4 drawers stuffed with comic/sci-fi t-shirts. My favourite is an an old Paul Dini "Harley Quinn" t-shirt.

[Britt]

Is this a guy thing? (Apologies to the women out there with a t-shirt fetish as well.) My husband has so many t-shirts that I (sneakily) packed several dozen in a huge box and hid it in the attic. He hasn't noticed yet. He still can't fit the remainder of his collection in his dresser all at one time. And he tells me at least once a week that there's this "awesome" new t-shirt that he *really* needs.

I wonder if there is an east coast chapter of the t-shirt intervention group...

[Becky..Absent Minded Housewife]

If you're into all that reduce/reuse/recycle stuff...handy people are using their old tshirts to make cloth grocery bags. It's good for the enviroment. It's a grand thing to carry your Steakums home nostalgic Bart Simpson "Don't have a cow, man" love.

[Sumo]

There are several gaming related shirts that I thought you might like
here at Busted Tees.

[LinksMonkey]

Note to self: write book - "Men Love T-Shirts, Women Love Shoes".

My T-shirts: computers, Far Side, monkeys, Notre Dame, nudism, Simpsons, Spider-man, US flags, etc. and I don't have enough t-shirts. I do have a lot of collar shirts for work and such and some plain t-shirts (don't know why). With the colder weather coming I try to wear one of my 4 Hawaiian shirts over my t-shirts - no one mentioned the awesomeness of Hawaiian shirts, so I have.

Sidebar: my nephew gets all of my old t-shirts and I've bought most of his new ones. At school they make him wear his shirts inside out, but don't make the Goth kids take out their hardware. His Mom lets him wear whatever he wants as long as it's clean 'cause he has a nearly 4.0 GPA (and is a gamer).

[SantaFlash]

Never been to a "real" gaming con...well, actually I went to a horrible one in Anaheim, CA a few years back. Still trying to forget it. It's sad that the con program has to include reminders to bathe.

I think I'll stick with City of Heroes, Munchkin, etc. I guess I'm a light gamer compared to everyone else here! *sniff* I feel...outta place :(